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The Money-Powers (Wall Street & City of London financiers, bankers, and corporations) that are creating the new world economic order are winning their battle. They may have already won it. The last step is to create rebellion and revolutionary chaos in the USA, and destroy the Obama administration, and any vestiges of representative government we actually have left.

The militant and authoritarian extreme right has all of the money and media on its side of the ledger, and they are winning the war for the minds of the people. Make no mistake. This is not a new war. It has been going on for thousands of years, and been ratcheted up in the last two or three hundred, and several times since then. We are now in the final, or nearly final stage. Soon representative governments will be a memory. At least this will be so for governments that represent the people. Huge corporations and the billionaires behind them will be well represented.

There will also be several tiers of supportive ranks of entrepreneurs, managers and high-ranking government and military personnel who will do well. But the vast bulk of humanity will be either enslaved on some physical or economic level or allowed to starve, drown, or be otherwise thrown away or exterminated in some fashion, from wars, famines, diseases, and any number of other horrors.

This is obviously not a pretty picture, and I wish I didn’t have to describe it. But it is all but inevitable now. Why? I could explain that in many ways, but perhaps the simplest is to say that the “Tea-Baggers” have “hijacked” the reform movements, and are winning false reforms. That is to say that the radical fascist wealthy elite right has succeeded in not only capturing all the means of production and distribution in our culture, but the production and distribution of information and education as well. At least they now have enough of it to sway and hypnotize the ignorant masses any way they choose. The “Tea-baggers” are right wing frauds that have hijacked the reform movements begun by writers and activists like me and other money reformers. The “Tea-Baggers” are the visible marching throngs of people who have been warned that we must really take back our government and our money. They are only one group out of thousands that are acting like reform groups but are really funded and organized by those now in control, and who want to see fake and phony “reforms” that leave things in their control, or more so. Beware these “wolves in sheep’s clothing”. Jesus did not use that phrase lightly or without cause. Those that simply want to tear down or destroy legitimate elected governments are among the worst of these pseudo-reformers.

And ignorance is also a huge key. People have been kept so busy earning a living, caring for their families, or amusing and entertaining themselves that they have failed to inform themselves of the historical, philosophical, social, spiritual and economic principles that form the basis for lasting and successful civilizations whose citizens are capable of governing themselves responsibly.

So the US Constitution our forefathers though provided adequate checks and balances against fatal accumulations of power failed to provide for economic checks and balances. Wealth and power were accumulated and aggregated into the hands of a few who eventually used corporations, cartels and syndicates to replace the power of the people with their own wealth and money powers.

This, of course, is the short version of the story. Very long books have been and will be written to supply all the sordid details.

This writing has another point, and an important one. It is that during the past several hundred years, bankers and financiers who own the interlocking networks of corporations that now rule our world have been waging a massive propaganda war against governments. This war has been especially vicious against democratic or republican representative governments. The reason for this is that only the “people-power” of a strong middle class can protect a society against the aristocratic tyranny of money and wealth.

It is essential that the reader grasp this point. Vast inequalities in the distribution of wealth create an aristocracy far stronger than any that existed by royal bloodlines in the past. Free markets cannot exist in the midst of such concentrations of economic power. They have not existed for a long time now, except in the mythologies the power-brokers spin out to the people, via their corporate mainstream media.

Let me repeat it another way. Political democracy cannot be sustained without some degree of economic democracy. This does not mean everyone should make the same wage, or income. That is a ludicrous idea used to attack attempts to bring economic fairness and justice into the marketplace of ideas. Industry, education, initiative and creativity should always be rewarded. These incentives should never be removed, just as concepts of private property should never be abandoned. However, the economic playing field cannot be sustained when it is a skewed as it now is toward the unrestricted accumulation of wealth and power.

The only real power capable of standing up to the power of wealth is a government of, by and for the people. That is precisely why the war has been waged to destroy such governments, and why that war is at a fever pitch right now. Your government has almost, but not quite, been taken over by the money powers. Whether that happens of not depends on you, and your choices – right now.

The task of the people now is to reclaim its government. Reclaiming the sovereign right of governments to create and regulate money would be a great place to start. That means absorbing the privately owned Federal Reserve System into the US Treasury while simultaneously overhauling that government agency. The US Treasury and all banking operations should be totally transparent to the people and to government oversight and responsibility. Money could even be created at state government or regional economic levels.

However, the purpose of this paper is primarily to warn people that they are being confused, divided, and conquered. All predators operate this way. However the predators we are dealing with are also parasites. Parasites often end up killing their hosts, and that is happening here. Wall Street financiers and bankers are not part of the “real economy” of our nation. Only people who make or create things actually produce real wealth. Bankers and financiers create “phantom wealth” or paper wealth that always sooner or later bubbles to far and then bursts. You are being told that your government is your enemy, and all we need do is “take down” the government, and put another, better one in its place and viola!…everything will then be peachy-keen.

If you’ve bought into this lie you’ve been had by the propaganda machine, and need to separate yourself from the Matrix. You are cheering on Senator Palpatine! Is that your desire? Star Wars the movie showed us how entire planets or even systems of planets can be deceived into falling into the dark side. Yet that is what we are in danger of doing.

Let me repeat. Government is the only agency that even remotely represents the people of the USA. It is big money, unregulated power, and nearly unlimited accumulations of wealth that has co-opted your government, and corrupted much of it over to the dark side.

You are being convinced that President Obama has been co-opted, and must be defeated, but I suggest that is the propaganda the dark side wants you to believe in order to bring down all that stands in their way. They are painting Hitler hair and mustaches on signs of the president. They are smearing and lying about him and the government and I see these tactics working. Don’t allow it to happen. Criticize Obama or his administration all you want. Honest criticism is the duty of a patriot. Just make sure you don’t destroy our representative government along with the criticism.

The Money-powers are doing their best to shift the blame fro the economic collapse away from themselves, where it rightfully belongs, to the newly arrived Obama administration. We wrote about this happening way before Obama was elected, or even got the party nomination. We foresaw it years and decades ago. I wrote of this happening when Reagan was bring his supply-side “Voodoo Economics” and de-regulation policies 30 years ago. De-regulation in general and the repeal of Glass-Steagal in particular allowed the derivatives games and credit default swaps that causes the giant losses that brought down the financial system. And the unwinding is just beginning. There is no recovery in process, except that which is being bought on Wall Street with your taxpayer bail-out dollars. Many more waves are coming over many more years, even under the most far-sighted management of our economy.

But real money reforms along with government reforms could work miracles in a few short years. But heed my warnings. Economists, bankers and their accountants and lawyers must not be allowed to direct these financial and government reforms. That is the fatal mistake I see in our immediate future. It is once again putting the foxes in charge of the henhouse. The wolves must not be allowed to guard the sheep!

Review:

The money powers who are building the new economic world order have hijacked the legitimate calls for real financial and government reforms, and are calling themselves “Tea-Baggers” among other progressive-sounding or patriotic names.

Blame for the economic collapse lies squarely with Wall Street and the international cabal of bankers: the IMF, BIS and World Bank, along with all major central banks owned by private stockholders.

Those criminals who have perpetuated the largest crimes in history are desperately trying to shift the blame to “government” – all governments.

First they corrupt the government to profit from that corruption, then they pass the blame off on the government they bribed and corrupted. We must find ways to separate the elections process from the money powers.

We must also find ways to reduce the obscene disparities in wealth and resources, and better compensate labor for its contributions to the aggregate wealth of the planet.

We must not allow rage and anger to destroy hundreds or even thousands of years of the progression of civilization. We must find ways to extend representative government to more citizens without destroying what we have achieved.

We must keep our would-be masters and controllers from putting a “new face” on the evil that has been done over years, decades and centuries by the Moneychangers and financiers. The scapegoat they are trying to use now is President Obama.

Follow the money. Ask, who benefits? Find out where the money is coming from and where it is going. We must find ways to break up monopolies and trusts that are “too big to fail”. Too big to fail is too big to exist.

We have think beyond old stereotypes for our economies if they are to work for everyone. We may need to rethink the public/private divide and have communities assume ownership of natural monopolies. We have to find new ways to make monopolies accountable to the people.

We must never underestimate the lure of unlimited and unregulated power. That really is the lure of the “dark side” from which our forefathers wished to protect us. They left the back door of economic and money power open to the usurpers and usurers.

The only safe repository of power is with the people in the aggregate, and in just and reasonable laws – legislation.

Personally I think it would be a good idea to call a constitutional convention every 40 or 50 years, or even more, if it could be done with just representation. Just representation is the key to it all. I may post this and then follow up with footnotes and references where needed. 70 years of living research went into this paper. It is freely given for your best use.

Subtitle: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy

I’ve just nearly finished another reading of Progress and Poverty, by Henry George. This time, instead of the unabridged fourth edition, which I’ve read several times, I’m using the simplified edited and abridged version by Bob Drake, published by the Schalkenbach Foundation.

This last simplified version lacks some of the poetic beauty of George’s original verse, but it is also far easier for those who want to initially expose themselves to his revolutionary and progressive ideas to comprehend and assimilate.

I am once again impressed that this self-educated man was one of the handful of greatest thinkers our world has ever produced. By 1879 he had recognized economic laws and principles that the greatest of western political economists had not seen, and still have not seen to this day. If there is a greater thinker and writer on political and socioeconomic issues in the past 300 years, then I want to read him or her! It is not Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stewart Mill, Karl Marx, Keynes, Freidman, Galbraith, Samuelson, or even Stiglitz. I have read them all, and all have made their contributions and impacts. None approaches the clarity and wisdom of George. I suspect that much of his keen perceptions were a result of his self-study; he was not invested in any pet theory or philosophy except the pursuit of universal truth as it relates to economics.

Henry George is the Isaac Newton of economic thought. One day this will be self-evident and universally recognized. For the time his great and potentially lifesaving insights will have to await economic catastrophe and collapse before they are widely seen for the enormous truths they contain.

Who would have thought it possible? How did we come to this place? Can our republic be saved without destroying capitalism? Are we going bankrupt? Is our financial system sound? Why are trillions in assets evaporating? Do our leaders know what they are doing? What is happening? Who can you believe? Who can you trust? How bad are things going to get?

I surf blogs and forums quite a bit, and everywhere I go people are angry and confused over the economy. Now, after the Obama Democratic administration has been in office for 6 weeks it is getting much worse. It is as if President Obama’s critics feel as if 6 weeks is enough time for him to have totally fixed every imaginable problem, not only in America, but in the entire world. In many quarters it is much worse. We hear Obama being blamed for everything that is wrong with the world economy. Seriously. It’s all his fault, according to the right wing media blitz. I hear talk of rebellions and revolutions from both the extremes on the right and the left. He’s not unwinding the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq fast enough. He’s not vetoing earmarks on legislation. He’s not closing Gitmo fast enough. He hasn’t done this or that and yada-yada, blah-blah, ad infinitum.

I’m having trouble believing what I’m reading, and when I read it again, it hasn’t changed. It’s still crazy. It’s nuts. It’s Alice in Wonderland. It’s The Matrix. Sadly, I realize that this is precisely why our civilization is falling apart, and our economy is collapsing like the house of cards it really is. Maybe what we are holding on to is just one big insane asylum! No one seems to have a clue about reality anymore. Well, perhaps “no one” is a bit hyperbolic, but “darned few” is a very realistic assessment. Few very are willing to take the “red pill”, step out of the Matrix, and see “how deep the rabbit hole goes”.

The Democrats have no answers, with the possible exception of Kucinich. The Republicans have no answers, although Ron Paul has a few clues about the problems. In other words we are in serious, if not apocalyptic, trouble.

Here are some questions I picked out of a few minutes surfing one forum today, along with my comments. But these questions are all over the place, everywhere, and the kinds of answers to them I’m seeing offers little hope of a good solution, to put it mildly.

Is there no way out?

Well, YES, there is, but NOT until a critical mass of people see it. and understand it. Until then, the way will be closed. I will show you the way out. I will explain it very carefully. But will you listen? Will you hear it? I doubt it. You have too many cherished myths and urban legends in the way. You have bought into a system of pleasing fables that you would rather keep than see the truth. You see, knowing the truth means you must act on it, and that means making changes you are uncomfortable with, and its scary, and your myths and legends are safer, and the truth makes your head hurt, and you get dizzy thinking about it… and … and … and …. and …

Who would have thought it possible?

I would, for one, and have been writing and saying so for many decades. So have many others. The ancient prophets foretold of these days. John the Revelator warned us about them, as did Jesus. If you really want answers, go to those who have seen this coming and are not selling something.

How did we come to this place?

Ignorance, in a word. Poor information and education. Deception. Trickery. Misdirection. Smoke and mirrors. Selfishness. Greed. Lust for power and privilege. Failing to place controls and limits on power, especially financial power. The last is really the key. Our founding fathers knew a lot, but they were fuzzy on money and economic issues, and did not provide ways to limit financial power as they did with the other checks and balances. Jefferson predicted it. So did Madison, Franklin, Adams, Paine, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, Lincoln, Garfield, Wilson, FDR, and countless others of note. We have not been listening, or heeding their strong warnings.

We came here through ignorance of the power of money, and its potentials for abuse and corruption when not properly handled, controlled and regulated for the benefit of the people as a whole. This is not what you have been taught, but it is the truth.

Can our republic be saved without destroying capitalism?

The “wrongness” of this question illuminates the problem, and even shows us “how we got here”.

What is your conception of “our republic”? Are “we” only interested in saving “our” republic? What about the rest of the world? Don’t others and “their republics” count?

Maybe we first have to think about how to save others before we can see how to save ourselves. But then, that is silly, isn’t it? We all have to look out for number one, and let others take care of themselves as best they can, right? Like Cain, we are still avoiding the answer to the question, “Where is your brother?”, with, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” We still need to figure that one out.

Another revealing issue is the question: What is in “our republic” that is worth saving? And why the concern with preserving “capitalism” from destruction? Is “capitalism”, as it is practiced now, so precious? Is our current form of “capitalism” sacred? If so, why is it collapsing? Why have trillions of taxpayer dollars had to go to keep banks that are “too big to fail” from failing? Is it smart to wish to preserve such a rotten and corrupt financial system? Forget “smart”; is it even sane?

What do you really mean by these terms? Do you know what “capitalism” is, or how many variations of it exists, or has existed? Have you considered that the particular version of it we now have could be the cause of problem, and that it probably should be altered or destroyed and replaced with something better? Do you know the difference between financial capitalism and monopoly capitalism? Or between these and laissez-faire capitalism? Do you even know what “capital” really means? The point is that these terms have changed in meaning, and sometimes in very “Orwellian” ways.

You see unless and until each of us can honestly and accurately answer those questions there really is “no way out”. We will not find the exit and the fire will consume the theater audience, stage, and actors. Many of the producers will also be killed or injured.

On the other hand, once you do answer them that way the “way out” becomes clear. Even better, the fire hoses are revealed. Safety can be had for all. The theater and all that are left in it can be saved.

You see, you can’t fix something unless you know what it is that is broken. And right now few people are even asking the right questions, let alone finding the true answers.

Philosophers and historians have written more volumes on these words, and what they mean, than one could read in a lifetime, or even several. I’ve read many of them, and my all writings try to condense and simplify the essential knowledge that must be gained by both individuals and civilizations, and then “lived into wisdom”. Like a parent watching a beloved child headed into the seduction of drugs, easy money, and fast women (or men) and knowing it will end badly, with much loss, pain and suffering, those of us who have survived our mistakes and learned our lessons must see our warnings ignored, and our experience disdained.

While I am writing longer books on these issues that may or may not ever see publication, I post blurbs like this around the Internet, hoping to touch a few souls who may then reach a few others. So the remaining message will be brief, and those who wish to learn more will have some direction to other resources.

All our major world problems, from poverty to wars, including our current economic crisis, is at its base a spiritual crisis. Unless the spiritual confusion and darkness are resolved to a sufficient degree, the material aspects of its manifestation cannot be fully addressed or long resolved. By “spiritual” I am in not way referring to church or temple membership or attendance, wearing crosses, crescents or stars, or subscribing to creeds and dogmas that some men or women have substituted for the real thing. That “real thing” is an inner sense of being spiritually connected to the universe – to our common Creator from whence all creatures and worlds originate, and to Whom we will all someday return – IF that is our choice. This is an inner, unseen but very real sense of connectedness that can eventually be experienced by the individual. Once that happens no further proof or demonstration is needed.

That is not the answer you were looking for, perhaps, but it is nevertheless true. You are seeking the more immediate and secular answer. And so you will have it.

Would you like a one-word answer?Power. Two words? Monopoly Power. Three words? Unchecked Monopoly Power. Four? Unlimited, Unchecked Monopoly Power. Another good word is Totalitarianism, as in the economic variety.

Here are some sign posts to point “the way out. But can you really handle the truth they contain?

From much past experience, I doubt that many people will look at the information presented in those links. However, they do show us “the way out” that was the subject of this post.

I am not suggesting that people stop preparing for worst-case scenarios. On the contrary, without a change in course, we are headed straight over the cliffs and into the abyss, just as so many people are beginning to fear. But without knowing what caused the problem it is impossible to know what to fix, or rebuild something better when the status quo self-destructs.

First, ask the right questions:

Who has the real power over others? Who really controls things? Who really calls the shots? What really constitutes power? What role does wealth and money play in the distribution of power? What is wealth? What is money? How has the ownership of wealth and money evolved down through time? What is different today? What kind of government do we really have? Who controls our government? Are the checks and balances between branches of government working? Are the checks and balances between individuals, families, neighborhoods, communities, towns, cities, states, and nations working as they should? How should nations align themselves continentally or internationally? What is “sovereignty”? Who has “sovereignty”? How is sovereignty distributed now? How should it be distributed? Does it flow from the top down, as in the “divine rights of kings”? Or does it flow from the bottom up, as in a democracy? What role do laws play? Are laws created or changed from the bottom up or the top down? Is everyone subject to the law, or are some entities or corporations above the law? What role do agreements, contracts, charters, and constitutions play?

A daunting list of questions and issues to be sure, but some understanding all of them is necessary to understanding today’s economic crisis, and why it will only grow progressively worse until the system itself it changed. The body of mankind has a life-threatening cancer, and unless it is surgically removed or otherwise treated, it will consume and kill the host. As is a real individual cancer, early detection and treatment is essential to the patient’s survival. It is not at all clear now that the host, our global economic body, can be saved at this point. Nor is it clear to what degree our national economic bodies can be saved. Iceland’s has already collapsed, as did Argentina’s, Russia’s, Spain’s, and a growing list of other nations and states.
What of the USA?

Ask the above question about our nation, and then get honest answers to them. My website will help, as might the other resources I’ve listed.

The bottom line is that we have a thoroughly corrupt private (NOT government or public) monetary system, and money (currency, electronic credits and debits, etc.) is the cancer we must root out and cure or replace with a more democratic form of currency that benefits the public rather than private bankers, as is now the case. Ben Franklin and Abraham Lincoln showed us the way out.

Our wisest forefathers foresaw this day.

Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Adams, Paine, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and untold others warned us about the money monopoly, the money power, the money trust, the eventual usurping of government of, by and for the people with that of, by and for the monopoly corporations.

There was a reason President James Madison said:

“History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.”

Or Andrew Jackson’s address to Congress 1829:

“You [central bankers] are a den of vipers and thieves and I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out. If Congress has the right to issue paper money, it was given them to be used by themselves, and not to be delegated to individuals or corporations…”

“The government should create, issue and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the government and the buying power of consumers….. The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the Government’s greatest creative opportunity. By the adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government. Money will cease to be the master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power. “ – Lincoln Abraham Senate document 23, Page 91. 1865

These are but a few of hundreds of such statements that are on record warning us about the unlimited power of private money and the money-changers. We must address and correct certain fundamental flaws in ways we conduct our financial and economic affairs. Power corrupts, and power must be kept in some system of checks and balances so that it cannot become “absolutely corrupted”. We must rethink our systems of checks and balances on financial power, because that can be more damaging to our world than runaway nuclear power. We really are facing a financial Chernobyl on a scale geometrically larger than that disaster.

Let me leave you with one thought. There has been an onslaught of criticism of the Obama Administration, from not only the extreme right, but from fiscal conservatives and from the left. I am mindful and sympathetic to many of those criticisms, especially those that he is appointing the wrong people, and is allowing too many of the former (Bush) administration policies in place.

What so many people fail to recognize is the degree to which ANY president, or even any congressperson, is locked in the grip of those money-masters and power-masters who are actiually running our nation (USA) and all but the most remote reaches of our world.

He can only make so many changes. He is one lone mortal man who must have allies around him. He must cooperate with the powers that be, even while he might be working to change them. Remember that the mainstream media and money powers are all against reforms and changes that may limit their profits and power.

Never before in our history can unthinking, hastily spoken words do more harm to the status of mankind. We are on the brink of either terrible disasters or unimaginable progress. The forces of light and darkness are demanking that we choose sides. Selfishness and greed are always aligned with darkness. Cooperation and kindness are always aligned with the light.

We must either wake up and grow up very quickly, or perish as a people and a civilization. The time is now. The choice is ours. Choose wisely and well.

This short one minute video shows us that at least one congressman understands how to begin fixing our economic crisis. Borrowing money from private bankers is insane when it can be printed or electronicaly credited at cost by our USGovt.